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adjective
1.
(of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
2.
(of a young woman) sexually developed and attractive: the nubile girls in their bikinis.
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Nubile
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Word Origin & History
nubile
1640s, "marriageable" (said of a woman), from Fr. nubile, from L. nubilis "marriageable," from stem of nubere "take as husband." First used 1973 in sense of "young and sexually attractive."
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